The City of Concord is in the process of soliciting community feedback about its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rezoning Project.
The first meeting took place on April 22, and the next will be held via Zoom on Thursday, April 25 at 6 p.m. Register here.
At this early stage in the project, we want to hear your thoughts on rezoning select properties in higher resource neighborhoods to allow multifamily development.
While the project is being completed under mandates from the State of California, we aim to partner with residents, businesses, and property owners to address housing inequities and improve the quality of life in Concord. At these meetings, participants got to hear information about the project and got the opportunity to provide input on guiding principles, opportunities and challenges, and site selection criteria.
What is AFFH?
AFFH stands for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. It is a provision of the Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and a piece of federal legislation that prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing and ensures equal opportunity in housing for all. While federal law prohibited overt forms of housing discrimination, residential segregation has remained and persists in California today.
California Assembly Bill 686 created new requirements for cities to affirmatively further fair housing as a part of a jurisdiction’s planning process and take meaningful actions that overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity.
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Sure, 20 people to 1 house, 10 cars, some that run landscaping businesses, starting up their dumptrucks before dawn-why not ??
Or the shacks out back built 1′ from fenceline, not the required 5′, so the creeper dopefiend livin in it can throw the empty beer cans over the fence for my dog to get. & b**ch that we make too much noise during the day for him to sleep, he has to work at nite.
Yeah, BRING EM ALL IN🤮🤢
Ok, they want our thoughts on the project? Here’s my opinion: NO!!
Property values ? ? ?
Another little thing thought up by obama administration.
What happens, when DEMs are elected to a super majority control of state legislature.
Anyone remember jimmy The Wimp carter, clinton and janet reno and a little thing called (CRA) community reinvestment Act an how well that worked out?
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Bill info, AB-686 Housing discrimination: affirmatively further fair housing.(2017-2018)
Another gem passed while you weren’t paying attention.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB686
Obama administration in 2015 issued regulations on AFFH. According to HUD, federal
agency charged with writing the rules for the FHA, the purpose of the AFFH rule is to “set out a
framework for local governments, States and Insular Areas, and public housing agencies…
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Citizens of Concord you better sit up and PAY ATTENTION ! ! ! !
Multi family zoning plus rent control equals more crime and urban blight.
No NO NO DONT YOU DARE!
This isnt mandated,but for the fact that if they dont do it,they dont get federal monies ,so they are blackmailed into making all areas into a ghetto so its only fair that everyone live in a toilet.Tryng to give the 1% a life they didnt earn only destroys the quality of life for %99.
Total B S .Another made up problem by liberal racist politicians. This will hurt property values for hard working people. When will the middle class wake up and realize which party is always screwing them over? None of this will happen in Beverly Hills or Blackhawk or in Newsome’s Neiborhood.
Not in Clayton either but it coming Claytoners,now youre a real city
“we want to hear your thoughts” is politician speak for “we’re going to do this no matter what you think but will give the illusion of partnering and soliciting input.”
Your opinions don’t/won’t matter at all as long as there’s a single-party in charge. Kalifornistan is peak “mob rule.”
It’s time to recall the City Council.
We need the people who are supposed to represent us, to represent us, not their largest donors.
These people should have been run out of office a long time ago. They have already done so much damage to this city. It would take years to undo all the damage they have done here, if even possible to do at this point
Mr Mayor you responded to my comment with the answer to pop up adds with, CLAYCORD.COM
April 23, 2024 – 11:52 AM – 11:52 AM
Hi Lou – Thanks for the note. All popups should be gone by the end of the day.
Thanks again!
Mayor
Not sure if this problem is with my search engine or your website. I know you need to make money and I don’t mind a few adds , but lately some take over when I’m reading articles or posts. I sure hope you can help. Thanks Lou.
they wont help
still no sign of logic
Can someone define – “residential segregation” has remained and persists in California today. Does it mean, apartments segregated from single family homes?
I don’t blame the city of Concord entirely for this. It would not be happening if Sacramen
Sorry for the incompleted comment. My iPad is not interacting well with all the popup ads on this site. Anyway, the state is pushing the city to do this, and yes it is fundamentally a racist initiative. Targeting white neighborhoods is explicitly racist, and assuming our largely Hispanic low income families with limited English skills want to move into white neighborhoods is implicitly racist.
Did anyone organizing this rezoning effort even bother to ask our poorest hispanic neighbors where they would like to live? Would they rather live close to services, public transit, and stores that allow them to speak in their native language or would they rather live on the outskirts of town where they have to drive everywhere they need to go?
don’t really care where they ‘WANNA’ live
They should live in mexico if they don’t want to live with white people. It was already set up for them until they broke the law to be here.
Everything dirt cheap there and they spend American $$ there.
Their decision was made long ago. This is a rhetorical meeting that only exists to check off a box on the spreadsheet.
American communism